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Facebook Ad Approval Bot Exclusion for Google Analytics
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Enter this text as a filter for your views.
This will stop the massive spikes of fake traffic that occur from Facebook's bots when you create new Facebook Ads.
Go to Admin > Filters > Set a New Custom Filter > Exclude > IP Address
In the Filter Pattern enter:
^173\.252\.96\.([0-9]|1[0-9])$|^173\.252\.88\.([0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-1])$|^173\.252\.64\.([0-9]|1[0-9])$
NOTE: Test on a different view first to ensure data lossage will not occur. I'm not responsible if it does.
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If you're like me and use Analytics and run lots of FB ad's you know about the massive 300 hit waves of Bots that wreck your GA statistics due to the false traffic. This alleviates that issue by filtering their bots from view.

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